Botany and Ormiston Times : Howick and Botany Times Wednesday August 27 2014

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By Marianne Kelly
INTENSIFIED housing
development is envisaged in
the public Pakuranga Town
Centre draft Master Plan,
endorsed last December by
the Howick Local Board for
consultation.
It includes a bus interchange
station on the corner of
Pakuranga Road and Ti
Rakau Drive to connect local
buses from Howick to the
planned AMETI (Auckland
Manukau Eastern Transport
Initiative) dedicated busway
connecting Pakuranga to the
new Panmure rail station.
The corner of Pakuranga
and William Roberts Roads,
dubbed the Landmark
Corner, will become the
entry to a new Reeves
Road flyover, connecting
Pakuranga Road with the
South-Eastern Highway.
The area on the town
centre side of the flyover is
earmarked in the Proposed
Auckland Unitary Plan
(PAUP) for a mixed-use
residential development.
Pakuranga is the only ‘town
centre’ in the PAUP with
a permitted height of 12
storeys.
Dallas Pendergrast, who
co-owns the refurbished
Pakuranga Plaza with her
husband Ross, through
their investment company
Ladstone Holdings, says
the 12-storey height limit
introduces opportunities for
apartments without losing
any parking.
“Apartments above the
shopping centre? It could
easily happen,” she says.
After a major refurbishment
programme, Ladstone has
put Pakuranga Plaza up for
sale and the new owner will
inherit concept plans that
illustrate a possible staged
development scenario.
They include five 10 to
12-storey apartment
buildings positioned on top
of existing retail buildings
and on the north-eastern
corner of the site, which
could potentially provide up
to 1000 apartments.
Eventually the AMETI
busway is expected to run
down Ti Rakau Drive to
Botany Town Centre, where
the prospect of intensive
residential development,
including apartments above
retail premises, is also on the
cards.
The complex is one of six
metropolitan centres in the
PAUP zoned for a maximum
height of 18 storeys.
Terraced housing and
apartment building zoning
originally earmarked for the
east of the metropolitan
centre has been removed
and expanded to the west.
Highland Park town centre
is zoned for a maximum
six storeys either side of
Aviemore Drive, blending
into terraced/apartment
housing with a maximum of
four storeys.
Meadowlands Town Centre
in Somerville is zoned for a
maximum four storeys.
Apartment plans
Pakuranga Plaza, which is up for sale, could have apartment complexes
constructed on top of the existing buildings in the future.
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